One Human Family and Other Stories

The devastating hold the Korean War still has on the ordinary citizens of South Korea is revealed here in a novella and four short stories. Although the war happened many years ago, old animosities remain, and elderly nursing home residents are traumatized by their belief that the new resident was a collaborator. A child is made a laughing stock when she thinks the condoms tossed aside on the beach by American GIs are balloons.

About the author

Yeun-hee Chung, born in 1936 in Seoul.  She has since published several novels and numerous short stories and essays. Ms. Chung has received numerous literary awards, including the Korean Literary Writers Award.  An important and influential contemporary Korean writer, her writing focuses on the inner strength and virtue displayed by ordinary people.   Hyun-jae Yee Sallee has been translating Korean literature nearly twenty-five years. White Pine Press has two published two previous collections of her translations. Ms. Sallee was the recipient of a translation award from the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation in 1989.   

Summary

Haunting stories of the aftermath of war.

Foreword

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Product details

• Authors: Yeun-hee Chung, Chung Yeun-hee
• Assisted by: Hyun-jae Yee Sallee (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9781893996878
• ISBN: 978-1-893996-87-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Korean Voices; Korean Voices
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies